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Is it necessary to calibrate/condition the battery?
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From what I understand, calibrating the battery doesn't literally change the amount of juice your battery has left, but it allows the battery level indicator to read the battery power more accurately. It doesn't matter if your battery is fully charged if the battery level indicator is telling your MBP to save and power down immediately.
Calibrating the battery keeps the cells in the battery "moving." I say that when I calibrated the battery on my iBook and my MB the battery usually got better, then would go back to the original. If you calibrate your battery properly than you should have no problems.
haha, classic reply! I bet the calibration is more there for those infrequent users, like it states at the bottom of the calibration guidelines. If you're a heavy user and it frequently goes through some sort of charge/discharge phase i reckon you'll be fine without it.
Won't hurt to do it though, I do
Sorry to bump this, but id rather bump it instead of make a whole new thread.
Should i wait until the battery is fully charged before i turn it on for the first time? About how long does that take? And if the light turns green does that mean its fully charged or that its almost charged? Thanks guys, just picked up this beauty and finally got home. I went to the apple store first to buy it then to IKEA to get a new computer desk lol.
Should i wait until the battery is fully charged before i turn it on for the first time? About how long does that take? And if the light turns green does that mean its fully charged or that its almost charged? Thanks guys, just picked up this beauty and finally got home. I went to the apple store first to buy it then to IKEA to get a new computer desk lol.
It's not necessary. Just plug it in and go.
dallas112678 said:
Green means fully charged.
Batt said:
A common misconception is that calibrating can affect your battery runtime. This is false. The only thing calibration does is calibrate your battery meter so that the percentage and time remaining indicators in your menubar are as accurate as possible.
Some people have complained that after battery calibration, Coconut battery reports less battery health, and therefor become concerned and attempt to calibrate again hoping that health will increase. This is a completely pointless and fruitless exercise. The capacity "lost" was never there to begin with and the previous number was in fact inaccurate.
So, this is why you've never had a problem. The worst thing that could happen by not calibrating would be an inaccurately reported time remaining estimate in your menubar.
One more stupid question for me, im on step 3 of that little chart where you run the battery down completely on battery power, i didnt get to this part until late last night so i didnt have time to actually "Use" it during this and i just let it sleep the whole night and it lost probably 4%. Will this affect anything? The fact that i let it sleep last night, or does it not really matter how long it takes as long as you just completely drain the battery.